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“roles in True Romance and Crimson Tide—is a young, pre-Sopranos James Gandolfini. Glory, Marshall Herskowitz, 1989. Broadcast News, James L. Brooks, 1986.”
― Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
― Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
“Remember that nothing that’s any good works by itself, just to please you. You got to make the damn thing work. . . . Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
― The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
― The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
“(Also how Marcel Proust defined the writing job: take two sets of phenomena, find their “common essence.”)”
― The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
― The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
“Keep America Beautiful held the line against recycling for two decades.”
― The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
― The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
“The story this book tells is about the people who made our world; then the people who realized there might be a problem; then the people who lied about that problem.”
― The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
― The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
Helen’s 2025 Year in Books
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